NGC 2070 region

Constellation: Dorado

This image covers NGC 2070 (a.k.a the Tarentula nebula) and the region to its south. NGC 2070 is a large H-II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of Dorado. The large star cluster to the East of NGC 2070 is NGC 2100. This image includes many other objects such as star clusters to planetary nebulae, supernova remnants and Wolf-Rayet stars. Key objects are depicted and described below.  Link to interactive sky chart.

To the South of NGC 2070, one can see NGC 2081 and NGC 2074 to its SW. This section of the image also contains the planetary nebulae FoGl 1 to the East near the star cluster NGC 2091, and a candidate supernova remnant (small blue object near the top of the image) described in Table 6, N°877 in F. Haberl and W. Pietsch (1999) A ROSAT PSPC catalogue of X-ray sources in the LMC region. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 139, 277–295.
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Further South, from East to West,one can see IC 2145, NGC 2086, NGC 2085, NGC 2080 and NGC 2077.

Near the southern edge of the image, in clockwise manner starting from the North, one can see NGC 2083, NGC 2078, NGC 2079 and NGC 2084.

This region also contains a number of Wolf-Rayet stars. To the left, to the West, we see Brey 55. The other two, more easterly blue objects have no name at present.

Within this region one can also see the Honeycomb nebula, which is a supernova remnant. See also:
Honeycomb nebula

Telescope & Mount:

Planewave CDK14 on a Paramount MX mount.

Imaging:

Camera: Player One Zeus-Mono (bin 2×2)

Data:
Ha: 139x300s
O3: 181x300s
S2: 197x300s

Stars:
Red: 177x60s
Green: 177x60s
Blue: 178x60s

Total integration time: 51h 57′